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I am presenting the news and you decide. Michigan restaurateur gets another chance to fight deportation http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/08/17/ibrahim-parkal-deportation-turkey-restauranteur/88905568/ "A decade later, however, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began seeking his deportation, citing his past ties to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK, which had been designated a terrorist organization in 1997. Officials said Parlak did not initially reveal his PKK activities or his conviction. TODAY's NEWS https://sofrep.com/67010/bombing-in-southeastern-turkey-kills-nine-and-wounds-100/ "The bombing was likely carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and Turkish officials have already blamed the group for the explosion."

Oil flow in the Iraq-Turkey pipeline, carrying Kurdish and Kirkuk oil to Turkey's southern port of Ceyhan, resumed on Thursday after a week-long shutdown following a PKK attack, a Turkish energy official and a shipping agent told Reuters.

A Conservative former mayor and veteran army reservist has been dramatically arrested in an early-morning police raid and charged with owning a live 70-year-old Nazi wartime gun.Officers with search dogs swooped on the home of Councillor Jonathan Farmer, 56, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and seized a German Walther PPK pistol dating back to the Second World War.Police said they were acting on a tip-off and had a warrant to search his home for firearms. He will appear in court next Monday and could face a five-year jail sentence if found guilty.Farmer - whose wife Susanah is acting town clerk of Wisbech...

Another step in the deteriorating relations between Israel and Turkey toook place on Thursday, with hints that Israel is behind the leakage of tapes of secret talks betwen Ankara's intelligence personnel and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a disclosure that shocked the Turkish public and put Erdogan's government on the defensive. Erdogan, obviously furious, sought to defend National Intelligence Organization Chief, Hakan Fidan, in his release to the press. He had previously denied the taped conversations took place. “We know certain circles have targeted Hakan Fidan in the past,” Erdogan said in reference to past Israeli claims that Fidan...

The NRA is also reporting that S&W will manufacture a version of the Walther PPK/s that at 20.8 oz. is 3 oz. less than the original. Walther and Smith & Wesson have been tighter than two fingers in a mitten recently, with Walther \USA (the US branch of the company) sharing the same corporate address as Smith & Wesson in Springfield, and some commingling of personnel and assets. Walther USA has disbanded, and now Smith & Wesson is the US distributor for Walther products, as well as the maker of the current PPK/S. So we're up to date on the...

No US concession to the PKK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The U.S. State Department has announced that the terrorist organization, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) would not be rescued from being tracked by changing its name, and added that the United State would continually pursue terrorist organizations. Secretary State spokesman, Richard Boucher, told reporters that terrorist organizations changed their names from time to time for various reasons, but added that the U.S. authorities were monitoring such developments closely and did not allow terrorists to gain an advantage with such steps. "Such organizations sometimes change their names. However, we monitor them closely and determine...